Chapter Summaries

Yanbai and Uchiha Itachi uncovered the Old Woman’s secret system for preserving her power through artificially raised children and new bodies. The revelations left Madara furious and exposed the Old Woman’s plan to marry Yanbai and rule her empire indefinitely.

• Madara Uchiha told Yanbai that the Old Woman had turned Rena into a housekeeper system after Rena supposedly fell for someone else.
• Uchiha Itachi reported that the Third Miss had briefly shut down the central server with Madara Uchiha, found important information, and sent it to him before erasing the traces.
• Yanbai told Uchiha Itachi to write the information down, and Itachi recorded a report naming an unfamiliar woman as the heir.
• Uchiha Itachi’s report revealed that the Old Woman’s hospitals preserved aborted fetuses and raised selected embryos, training some as company workers and keeping genetically gifted ones as potential bodies for her consciousness.
• The report showed that the Old Woman planned to take new identities and bodies, marry Yanbai, and continue ruling the family conglomerate across generations.

Uchiha Itachi revealed that the Shinobi World was a box inhabited by characters controlled by players, leaving Madara Uchiha shaken by the possibility that even his will was predetermined. Yanbai kept the others from dwelling on the revelation, and later gave Granny Chiyo an explanation for Sasori’s disappearance.

• Uchiha Itachi burned the note containing his findings, and Madara Uchiha realized that the Shinobi World was a box where players could control their lives.
• Madara Uchiha questioned whether his personality and fate had been arranged, but Yanbai pulled him out of his thoughts and told Uchiha Itachi to wait for Cherry Ink’s results.
• Madara Uchiha asked whether Yanbai would leave once the system was repaired, and Yanbai said he would leave when he felt like it.
• The days returned to peace as the Land of Fire and Sunagakure prospered through their joint Humanoid Puppet business and improved infrastructure.
• Granny Chiyo came to Konoha after Yanbai’s message, and Yanbai told her that Sasori had gone willingly with an alien after falling in love and becoming a human puppet.

Yanbai used the Ōtsutsuki Clan as a common enemy to redirect the shinobi world’s hostility and began preparing Junlin to succeed him as Hokage. He explained to Madara Uchiha that his efforts to improve the world were mainly meant to make his own life more comfortable before he left it.

• The Land of Fire blamed recent disasters on the Ōtsutsuki Clan, while visitors who came to see Yanbai’s supposed grave illness found him healthy and left after spending money in Konoha.
• Yanbai told Junlin that the shinobi nations needed a common enemy, urged him to keep the next generation vigilant about the Ōtsutsuki, and warned him about other future threats.
• Yanbai’s system backend began initializing, but Cherry Ink remained unconscious and did not respond to his calls.
• Yanbai handed more affairs to Junlin, whom he considered better suited than his four disciples to become the next Hokage.
• Madara Uchiha questioned the point of Junlin’s efforts if the world would eventually reset, and Yanbai explained that he worked to avoid future troubles and make himself more comfortable.

Yanbai’s infrastructure reforms transformed the Land of Fire, though he found serving as Hokage exhausting and delegated more work to Junlin. Half a month later, his repaired system returned, revealing preserved records and a newly rebuilt attribute panel as Cherry Ink asked whether he would test the Cross-Dressing System again.

• Yanbai reflected that his construction drive had modernized the Shinobi World, with Minato Namikaze managing Konoha’s transportation industry and other nations following the Land of Fire’s lead.
• Yanbai reassured Madara Uchiha and handed troublesome Hokage duties to Junlin while waiting for his system repairs to finish.
• While drinking with Madara Uchiha, Yanbai heard a voice calling his name and opened the partially restored system panel.
• Yanbai configured the panel, which displayed his identities, abilities, system test projects, and preserved records from the old system.
• Cherry Ink revealed itself to Yanbai and asked whether he would test the Cross-Dressing System.

Yanbai completed his arrangements for retirement as Junlin took over as Hokage and Uchiha Itachi became Shikaku Nara’s assistant. At a New Year family dinner, Nagato introduced his Hyuga fiancée, while Yanbai played with Kushina’s mischievous young son, Naruto.

• Yanbai sent Muye back to the Uchiha Clan and Silver Moon back to the Senju Clan, where they were expected to take on clan responsibilities.
• As Yanbai prepared for retirement, Junlin assumed the Hokage position and Uchiha Itachi volunteered to serve as Chief Steward under Shikaku Nara.
• Minato brought Kushina and Naruto to visit the elders for the New Year family dinner.
• Nagato introduced his Hyuga fiancée to the family, reflecting the clans’ growing ties through intermarriage.
• After the guests left, Yanbai teased Kushina about Naruto’s mischievousness and styled the boy’s hair into little buns.

Yanbai watched Naruto secretly torment Sasuke and then comfort him, prompting Madara Uchiha to accuse Yanbai of enjoying the scene. Madara kissed Yanbai in revenge, and Yanbai responded by starting a fight with him.

• Mikoto brought Sasuke to visit Yanbai, and Sasuke began spending time with Naruto.
• Naruto smeared urine-soaked snow on Sasuke, then comforted him while the adults mistook him for a caring friend.
• Naruto continued secretly upsetting Sasuke and soothing him, while Madara Uchiha compared Naruto's behavior to Yanbai's.
• Madara Uchiha kissed Yanbai and blamed him for enjoying Asura bullying Indra.
• Yanbai punched Madara Uchiha, and they fought while Kushina led Mikoto away to the kitchen.

Yanbai and Madara Uchiha ended their fierce duel and bathed together, while Minato Namikaze and Uchiha Fugaku quietly retreated after overhearing them. Madara confronted Yanbai about why he had not left the world, but Yanbai dismissed his guess, leaving the question unanswered.

• Minato Namikaze and Uchiha Fugaku went to greet Yanbai, then turned back after hearing Yanbai and Madara Uchiha in the bath.
• Yanbai closed the window and argued with Madara Uchiha about their late-night fight.
• Madara Uchiha reflected that Yanbai could leave the world now that his system was repaired and wondered if Yanbai stayed because he could not bear to leave him.
• Madara Uchiha asked whether Yanbai had stayed for his sake, and Yanbai struck him and called his idea sleep talk.
• Madara Uchiha asked Yanbai why he had not left yet.

Uchiha Itachi brought Haku and Kimimaro to Yanbai, believing Yanbai would want to adopt them as he had in other cycles. Yanbai questioned why the children had come, while Madara Uchiha objected that they did not need more children.

• After New Year, Uchiha Itachi visited Yanbai and Madara Uchiha with Haku and Kimimaro.
• Uchiha Itachi explained that the Yuki Clan and Kaguya Clan still wanted to join Konoha, and that he had found the boys because Yanbai had adopted them in previous cycles.
• Yanbai considered that both clans were thriving in this world and that Haku and Kimimaro had not suffered the hardships they faced in their original fates.
• Madara Uchiha asked Uchiha Itachi whether he thought Yanbai and Madara Uchiha were short on children, and Uchiha Itachi responded with displeasure.
• Yanbai asked Uchiha Itachi what reason he had given Haku and Kimimaro to make them willing to come with him.

Yanbai accepted the young Haku and Kimimaro after learning Uchiha Itachi had brought them from the Land of Water without considering their changed circumstances. He then went with Madara to meet Otsutsuki Toneri and his father, who begged Yanbai to take Toneri in after a war on the moon devastated the descendants of Hamura.

• Madara Uchiha rebuked Uchiha Itachi for claiming Yanbai wanted to adopt Haku and Kimimaro without permission.
• Yanbai learned that Haku and Kimimaro had lived relatively safe, happy lives and agreed to let them stay rather than send them back.
• Yanbai used his Mangekyō Sharingan to educate Haku and Kimimaro in an illusion, and they greeted Madara as their father.
• Yanbai teleported with Madara to meet Otsutsuki Toneri and his father, who had arrived in an aircraft near the Memorial Stone.
• Otsutsuki Toneri's father begged Yanbai to take Toneri in and explained that the moon's Hyuga branch and Main Families had slaughtered each other.

Mutsuto told Yanbai and Madara Uchiha how Uchiha Izuna had rescued his family from the moon and purged its violent Hyuga descendants, leaving only Mutsuto and Toneri. Yanbai accepted Mutsuto and his possessions, including the ancestral spacecraft, but his treatment could only prolong Mutsuto’s suffering.

• Mutsuto recounted how Uchiha Izuna had purged the moon’s Hyuga descendants and sent his family away after the passage to Earth was destroyed.
• Mutsuto explained that he and Toneri were the Moon Otsutsuki Clan’s only survivors, and that he had planned to hide Toneri in the Land of Fire.
• Yanbai told Madara Uchiha that the Ōtsutsuki Clan’s extinction was part of its original fate, and Madara considered how fate might also affect Konoha and the Uchiha Clan.
• Yanbai welcomed Mutsuto and Toneri and accepted Mutsuto’s spacecraft and possessions.
• Yanbai treated Mutsuto, but the illness returned after each temporary recovery, so the treatment only prolonged his life.

Mutsuto was rushed to the hospital, where Orochimaru offered him either death or experimental treatment in exchange for everything he had. Mutsuto chose to die, leaving Toneri in Yanbai’s care, and Yanbai asked Orochimaru to let Toneri see his father’s remains intact.

• Yanbai brought the dying Mutsuto to the hospital after Instant Healing caused him unbearable pain and failed to stop his illness.
• Orochimaru presented Mutsuto with a death certificate and a contract for experimental treatment, explaining the risks and terms of each.
• Mutsuto pointed to the death certificate after hearing a woman’s voice in his head, and Orochimaru promised Yanbai would care for Toneri.
• Mutsuto stopped breathing, and Orochimaru completed the death certificate.
• Orochimaru asked to preserve Mutsuto’s remains for research, and Yanbai insisted Toneri be allowed to see his father one last time with the body intact.

Yanbai discovered that Uchiha Izuna’s soul had been exhausted and decided to visit Tobirama Senju, while resolving to stay beside the orphaned Toneri. After Mutsuto’s body unexpectedly spoke to Orochimaru, it revealed that the speaker was another world’s Orochimaru.

• Yanbai learned through Cherry Ink that Uchiha Izuna had suffered a second death because his soul’s power was exhausted, and confirmed that Tobirama Senju had not yet died.
• Yanbai successfully summoned Mito through Impure World Reincarnation but left her soul dormant to avoid beginning its deterioration.
• Orochimaru told Yanbai that Tobirama Senju remained secluded in his laboratory, and Yanbai decided he wanted to see him.
• Yanbai brought Toneri to say goodbye to Mutsuto, then left with the child and resolved to stay by his side as he grew up.
• Mutsuto’s corpse seized Orochimaru’s hand and spoke to him through his mind, revealing that the speaker was another world’s Orochimaru addressing the version who had become Yanbai’s child.

Madara Uchiha learned that Haku and Kimimaro recognized him from the memorial portrait Yanbai kept in their imagined modern life, and listened as they described growing up with Yanbai. Meanwhile, Yanbai took Toneri from Konoha Hospital to breakfast and then to Tobirama Senju's home.

• Haku and Kimimaro brought Madara Uchiha breakfast, and he asked how they knew he was their father despite having no memories of them.
• Kimimaro explained that Yanbai kept Madara's black-and-white photograph on a shrine, where the children saw it every day.
• Haku and Kimimaro told Madara about Yanbai's work, Haku's admirers, and Kimimaro confiding in Madara's photograph.
• Yanbai left Konoha Hospital with Toneri, eased his discomfort, and took him to a breakfast shop on Konoha Street.
• After breakfast, Yanbai took Toneri to Tobirama Senju's home.

Yanbai visited Tobirama Senju in his coffin and forgave him for his sins, asking him to help prepare for Yanbai’s departure from the Shinobi World. Tobirama promised to help, though Yanbai’s farewell left their future uncertain.

• Tobirama Senju admitted to Yanbai that he feared dying a second death and wanted to keep living as his brother.
• Yanbai told Tobirama Senju that he forgave him and accepted both his flaws and his sins.
• Tobirama Senju agreed to atone for his wrongdoing and help Yanbai keep the world running.
• Yanbai revealed that his Divine Core had been repaired and that he planned to leave the Shinobi World.
• Yanbai explained that his bonds had made him attached to the world, but he still did not belong there, and asked Tobirama Senju to help him leave.
• Tobirama Senju promised to help Yanbai.

Yanbai watched the peaceful shinobi world settle into a new era while preparing for his departure. On a snowy night, Momoshiki and Kinshiki appeared, but Momoshiki sat down with Yanbai for a drink instead of starting a fight.

• Yanbai took Madara Uchiha to family gatherings as Obito Uchiha and Rin Nohara began living together, while Might Guy adopted Rock Lee.
• The Daimyo of the Land of Fire passed his authority to Tsunade, who became the new Daimyo.
• Yanbai gave Orochimaru a list of old acquaintances to summon and keep on standby, signaling that he intended to leave.
• Momoshiki and Kinshiki arrived at Yanbai's home, and Momoshiki recognized Yanbai from previous cycles.
• Momoshiki accepted Yanbai's drink and explained that he did not want to fight because Yanbai's mother, Wakatsuki, might come after him.

Yanbai obtained Granny Chiyo’s One’s Own Life Reincarnation technique and prepared to resurrect people before leaving the world. As he began the ceremony, Madara Uchiha stopped him, unable to accept being left behind without him.

• Momoshiki complained to Yanbai and Madara Uchiha about Yanbai’s mother, then said he had given up ambition and was trying to enjoy life in the world inside a box.
• Yanbai asked Momoshiki about Urashiki, then left with Kinshiki and used the Flying Thunder God Technique to travel to the Land of Wind.
• Yanbai healed Granny Chiyo while secretly learning her One’s Own Life Reincarnation technique, then told her he would leave the world as a god; Chiyo promised Sunagakure would not invade Konoha.
• Yanbai returned to Konoha and told the children his plans to resurrect people before departing, while Kushina cried in Minato’s arms.
• Orochimaru placed the reincarnated bodies of Hashirama and the others in the forest, but Madara Uchiha pulled Yanbai aside before he could perform the jutsu and called him cruel for leaving them behind.

Yanbai and Madara Uchiha chose to die together rather than face life apart, leaving Orochimaru to oversee the resurrected loved ones and their burial. After Orochimaru departed the Princess Mausoleum, Uchiha Itachi appeared as Yanbai’s last watchful presence before vanishing.

• Yanbai and Madara Uchiha agreed to die together, and Yanbai asked Madara not to resurrect him afterward.
• Yanbai told Orochimaru that Madara would resurrect their deceased loved ones while Yanbai used Living Reincarnation to sustain them, then entrusted what followed to Orochimaru.
• Yanbai built his gravestone, and the Princess Mausoleum was sealed with their home and its guardians protecting their resting place.
• The children departed to help Tobirama Senju settle the resurrected, while Orochimaru lingered alone at the mausoleum.
• Orochimaru’s inner voice warned him that Uchiha Itachi was watching over Yanbai, so Orochimaru said farewell and left.
• Uchiha Itachi appeared after Orochimaru departed, watched the mausoleum gates, and vanished with the Body Flicker Technique.

Yanbai met the Old Woman in the secret research base after both escaped the virtual world, and she revealed her history, her immortality, and her regret over what she had done to Wakatsuki. Yanbai refused to hate or kill her, and they decided to choose another virtual world to explore together.

• A young girl emerged from a biological pod and said Yanbai had helped kick her out of the server; Yanbai then left his own pod and went to the restricted research base.
• Yanbai greeted the girl as the Old Woman, who embraced him and explained that Baiying and Baijing had killed her before but that she had survived through stored incarnations.
• The Old Woman told Yanbai about her plans to create new incarnations and confessed that she regretted imprisoning Wakatsuki and forcing her to marry Yanbai's father.
• The Old Woman explained that her love for Wakatsuki changed after she became a virtual consciousness, and that Wakatsuki and Yanbai had kept her connected to her humanity.
• Yanbai said that hatred and killing would not restore lost happiness, and that they had to build future happiness themselves.
• The Old Woman asked Yanbai what virtual world he wanted to visit next, and he said he preferred a peaceful world where he could enjoy life.